Cathleen Wyatt is an associate in Ice Miller’s Business Services Group. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts and agreements (including stock and asset purchase agreements, professional services agreements, master equipment and service agreements, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, leases and real estate and financing documents) and general corporate and governance matters.

Before joining Ice Miller, Cathleen was an associate for an Indianapolis law firm, assisting with a wide range of projects across practice groups, such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, municipal bond offerings, real estate transactions on both buyer and seller sides, municipal development projects and tax abatements.

Cathleen earned her juris doctor, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, in 2015 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She served as managing editor of the Indiana Law Journal.

Before law school, Cathleen worked in the banking and financial services industry for approximately 12 years, with most of her time spent in anti-money laundering compliance and fraud prevention. She served as the vice president of the Financial Intelligence Unit as a Bank Secrecy Officer for an Indiana bank where she managed a team of 20 employees. Cathleen oversaw anti-money laundering investigations, regulatory report reconciliation and filing, Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction requirements, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) OCC regulatory examinations and internal audits, risk assessment and the BSA program. She also initiated the creation of a new Loss Prevention Department and developed new monitoring methods to prevent and detect fraud as the assistant vice president of the Fraud Department.